Driving through the Kaliburan, a desert sandstorm, we reach Bukhara. Its towering Minaret was spared the fury of Genghis Khan, who was wonderstruck by such beauty. We are now in to the heart of our journey. On the very night we enter Afghanistan, in Mazar-i Sharif itself, where we have our first stop, more than 250 soldiers are killed in a terrorist attack.